Doctor Sleep: A Novel [Signed & Limited Illustrated Edition with Vincent Chong Remarque]

Baltimore, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications , 2013. Stated at copyright: "First Limited Edition Printing". This is the Cemetery Dance Publications Deluxe Signed and Traycased Limited Edition of Stephen King's novel Doctor Sleep with a hand drawn remarque by Vincent Chong. Large volume measures 7 1/4" x 10 1/4" weighing five pounds in traycase. Beautifully signed by Stephen King and illustrators at limitation page: "This special signed edition of Doctor Sleep is limited to 750 numbered copies. This is number '205'. Stephen King, Vincent Chong, Erin S. Wells". Original Vincent Chong illustration on tipped-in leaf. Below Chong's remarque design is statement: "This is one of 100 copies of the Cemetary Dance Publications special edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King that have been personally remarqued by artist Vincent Chong." Included with this are two facsimile color prints of other remarques - each also drawn for a different volume of this limited edition - one by Vincent Chong and another by Erin Wells. The Erin Wells design features a fly w/integrated image of skull in its back among swirls of red spelling 'REDRUM'. Apparently, Wells no longer does remarques. Pristine textured white leather (or leather-like) boards, red metallic impressed cover and spine titles, fine. Pages fine. Each page throughout printed in black w/red accents to page numbering, etc. Deep red silk moire-like endpapers. Deep red satin ribbon marker. Bind fine. Unique to this edition's wrapper are the designs of Vincent Chong, fine; unclipped 450, protected in new clear sleeve. Large traycase matching boards in white leather w/red metallic cover and spine titles, fine. Interior of traycase lined w/black felt material. Features the horrific imagery of Vincent Chong with a half-dozen tipped-in glossy color paintings; two are fold-out extra-wide scenes. And also, the works of Erin Wells with twenty b&w full-page illustrations and six vignettes. An exquisitely designed and complete example. This exclusive Limited Edition was published in three states, printed in two colors and bound in fine materials. What ever happened to Danny Torrance? For 36 years, since The Shining was first published, the answer has been left to imagination. Finally, we catch up with Dan as his creator envisions him: a flawed middle-aged man with a tragic past - his special gift, shining, now dulled with age and alcohol. He has become Doctor Sleep, a hospice worker who eases the end of lives. He also happens to be the only one who can help a little girl with her own special gift. This is not simply a continuation of The Shining. This tale stands on its own, and it manages to magnify the supernatural quality that first drew us to Danny, expanding the mystery and intensity in a way that hints at reaching beyond this new book and into the rest of King's universe... and beyond. King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular tales ever in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes "Doctor Sleep." Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan?s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra?s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon. 527 pages. Insured post.. Signed by Author and Artists . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Chong, Vincent; Wells, Erin S.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.